Tag: anniversary poem
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Marriage Centos
I wrote “Marriage Centos” to celebrate my twenty-fifth wedding anniversary by weaving together lines from seven poets whose work has accompanied me through different seasons of life. The sequence explores marriage as a continuous act of choosing, enduring, separating, returning, and recommitting across the years. —
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Our Seven Year Sonnet
Seven years married yet eight sonnets come In this strange arithmetic God gives more Than the eight minus one in man’s kingdom. Seven heaven is plus more in His Swore. – It is not necessary to believe in me And me to believe in you true and just, But if we are to really truly…